Frank J. Tassone

Haijin in Action

  • The Last Laugh?

    a lion dying on the savannah a hyena’s laugh and a hunter’s scope suddenly turns away for day 5 of

  • Absurd depositions

    Sometimes, you just have to say it: A laugh about fighting in shadeand then an unholy shout.Assured to leave death delayed,a laugh about fighting in shade.No reason to put on a pout:how would that even persuadeA laugh about fighting in shadeand then an unholy shout? Other times, you just shouldn’t. daylightthe first green grasson the…

  • Not Words

    faithless words betraying whatever they name like cowardice sliding off the brave man and woman across an open field life’s water their closed eyes turned away as words condemn them a reverse poem of Jane Hirschfield’s words Day 3 of

  • Sophiac Psalms

    A hoot in the dark, aloft on silent wings, a wisdom unheeded Ever flowing a meandering way, ever yielding and always overcoming In a tumultuous world, always chasing in every direction, how not A crackling roar splitting the sky of our complacency A haunting melody whose poignant lyrics we lose and find again Day 2…

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/2/22)

    4/2/23: limb limb from limb the tide still flows in and out #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo #glopowrimo #napowrimo2023 #glopowrimo2023

  • Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, issue 13 – April 2023

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: sumi ink paper —trying to make itthrough the day https://scarletdragonflyjournal.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/issue-13-2023-04-april-2.pdf Versione italiana inchiostro di china —cercando di arrivarealla fine del giorno © A.M. Immagine dal web

  • Today’s Haiku (April 2, 2023)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 菜の花や岩を曲れば怒涛見ゆ　　　阿部みとり女 nanohana ya iwa o magareba dotô miyu ??????????? rape blossoms— ??????????? turning at the rock ??????????? I see angry waves ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Midorijo Abe from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), February 2023 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:? Midorijo Abe (1886-1980)

  • Contracting Impressions

    Constellations, bearing light hundreds, to thousands of years old to our eyes. Light, older still, from stars beyond our capacity for observation, streaking across the void. An expanding edge, beyond which defies imagination, stretching further and further from the 13.4 billion-lightyears away center of it all. Imagine the entire universe is one cell of one…

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Frank J. Tassone

Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!

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